Brief Profile:
B.A. in Biochemistry, graduating May '09
Included in AMCAS: NROTC - 4 years (leadership positions and summer trainings) Division I Cross Country/Club Track - 4 years Clinical Care Extender (100 hours) Family Practice Shadowing (40 hours) Delegation on Medicine in South Africa (10 days) Private G-Chem Tutor (1 semester for 2 hours a week) 'Lose the Training Wheels' Volunteer (15-30 hours per summer) Student Ambassador Club (3 years; 1 year as a VP) Dean's list, NSCS, ect...
Not in AMCAS but before interviews: NROTC leadership my senior year Shadowed a DO in ED in Washington D.C. (25 hours) Shadowed Navy Otolaryngologist at Balboa Hospital (1 day) 4.5 week training on an aircraft carrier (spent a few days visiting the on board hospital and shadowing doctors)
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2008
Undergraduate college: University of San Diego
Undergraduate Area of study: Physical Sciences
Total MCAT SCORE: 513
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 129,
C/P 127,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.95
Science GPA: 3.94
Summary of Application Experience
Right around 25 secondaries submitted; 17 interview invites. I had trouble scheduling them around school/cross country so I ended up turning some down like Pitt :(...the travel costs were piling up (coming from west coast to interview at only east coast schools).
By December I withdrew from most places that didn't give me interviews, unless they were close enough to my parents' house that I could fly home and drive to them rather than make a special trip for them.
I really liked most of the schools I interviewed at...not sure where I'll go if I don't get into Penn. USUHS has a huge military commitment when combined with NROTC, so it'll come down to UVA, VCU, Wake, Penn State, and Georgetown (on Navy HPSP Scholarship). Loved EVMS, but hated Norfolk.
I withdrew from the DO schools only because I couldn't decisively decide on one before their early deadlines, but I thought very highly of VCOM.
Applied, Rejected
University of North Carolina
Applying for combined PhD/MSTP? No
Submitted: 06/11/2008
Secondary Completed: No
Interview Invite: No
Interview Attended: No
Waitlisted: No
Accepted: No
Rejected: 12/17/2008
Summary of Experience:
No OOS? I don't like people from North Carolina then...so there
User #17053 took the old MCAT and scored a 32 which is in the 88th percentile of all old scores.
We converted this to a 513 on the updated scale which is in the 89th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted User #17053’s section scores as follows:
User #17053 scored a 11 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
User #17053 scored a 10 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
User #17053 scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.
